Top 20 Toolbelt Tips

Tom Austin, Red Gate

About me

• Pre-Sales Engineer who has worked with Redgate SQL Server

tools since 2008.

• Worked with hundreds of clients across the globe, from start-

ups to FTSE/Fortune 100 companies and everything in

between.

• Specialises in helping clients to improve their approach to

Database Lifecycle Management (DLM)

• Recently been writing and delivering DLM training courses in

Europe and Asia

Tom Austin

Pre-sales Engineering

SQL Toolbelt

Redgate's SQL Toolbelt contains the

industry-standard products for SQL

Server development, deployment,

backup, and monitoring.

Together, they make you productive,

your team agile, and your data safe

1. Colour code your databases

2. Find your dependencies

3. Standardise your layout

4. Standardise your code

5. Undo Changes

6. Find references quickly

7. Don’t write documentation…ever

8. Spot drift before someone else does

9. Never lose a query

10. Quickly fill a table for testing

11. Customise your generated data

12. Run your queries once

13. Banish wildcards!

14. Clean up your database

15. Customise your deployment scripts

16. Script as insert

17. Rename your alias

18. Switch tools fast

19. Follow best practices

20. Never forget a where clause

“I didn’t know we had that”

“I didn’t realise that was in the bundle”

-Sooo many people I speak to!